Access Analyzer
Understand how AWS Access Analyzer continuously monitors resource policies to detect external access risks, policy syntax errors, and compliance violations. Explore its features for validating policies against best practices and learn how it helps maintain security and regulatory compliance within your AWS account.
AWS Access Analyzer is an IAM tool that we can use to analyze the policies in our AWS account. By doing this analysis, it can help us do the following:
Identify our AWS resources that are accessible outside of the account
Identify inactive access in our account
Find syntax issues in our policies
Make sure that our policy is according to the security best practices
Generate IAM policy based on access activity of a user in the AWS CloudTrail logs
Access Analyzer is a regional service that needs to be enabled in the desired region.
AWS Access Analyzer workflow
AWS Access Analyzer works by continuously monitoring the resource policies within our AWS environment to identify potential security risks and compliance violations. It ...